A French Court has ordered French Celebrity Magazine CLOSER to pay Prince William and Kate Middleton a sum of £90,000 in damages for publishing Kate topless photo while the couple was on holiday in Provence in September 2012.
The angry couple considered £1.4million (€1.5million euro) from French Closer magazine appropriate compensation for the upset and embarrassment caused by the photographs being distributed around the world.They also want the equivalent of £42,000 (€50,000 euros) from the local newspaper La Provence, which first published pictures of the Duchess in her swimwear five years ago today.
Editor, 51-year-old Laurence Piea, and Ernest Mauria, 71, and the director of the Mondadori group which publishes Closer, were fined £42,000 (€45,000 euros) each. Both could have been sent to prison for up to a year but retained their freedom.
One particularly intimate image showed William rubbing suncream into his wife's skin, and was said to have caused the particular upset.
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